Getting to know: Our Process Development Scientist
Koen Gommers joins us as a Process Development Scientist working on our industrial scale production of single stranded DNA.
Where do you come from?
I come from Belgium. Land of chocolate, beer, waffles and a bunch of other unhealthy/delicious things.
What is your role? Include the title but include a couple of sentences about what you will do and your hopes and aspirations for the role.
As a Process Development Scientist, my main goal will be to optimize the production of industrial quantities of DNA. There will be a lot of challenges during the upscaling but I am sure that, together with the team, we will overcome them with ease. The result will be a robust process capable of delivering ssDNA of the highest quality but also at a reasonable price. Once we are done with this upscaling, we will be enabling the scientific and medical community to actually use this great product in a cost effective way.
What are you looking forward to at Moligo?
I have been given a great responsibility and I am very much looking forward to growing and learning as a person. While I do that, I look forward to Moligo growing with me.
It is a huge honour to be able to be here from the start and I can't even imagine how the company will look a year from now.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
All and nothing. I like going on hikes and bringing some picnic. I also enjoy baking and cooking so sometimes I find myself trapped in the kitchen for an evening making a 3kg batch of waffles which I can happily consume the day after watching a movie.
Other than that, I have 2 cats that also demand quite some attention.
What is a fact about you that not many people know?
I inhale buckets of mayonnaise, kilos of chocolate and deep-fry my fries in beef tallow. My blood is like syrup. On top of that I love listening to schlager music.